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often causes the ruin of young

I gave way to that feeling of false pride which so often causes the ruin of young men, and after losing four sequins I expressed a wish to retire, but my honest friend, the Jacobin contrived to make me risk four more sequins in partnership with him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

other cake the rest of you

The other cake the rest of you can divide among yourselves as best you can."
— from The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by John Spargo

of Contents The reading of your

Return to Table of Contents The reading of your paper on 'Railway Communication,' has given me great pleasure: your remarks about American railways are very well in the main, but the speed of travel is misstated, as it ranges from forty to fifty miles an hour; unless it be an omnibus railway, like the Haarlem, where they stop for passengers every few hundred yards.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 by Various

of Cain that rests on your

"No, Frale, it is the curse of Cain that rests on your [Pg 260] soul.
— from The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine

of Copan the ruins of Yucatan

[III-16] On the Antiquity of Copan, the ruins of Yucatan, and Palenque, see vol.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

others c The rest of y

Indeed, it is our callamitie that we are (beyound expectation) yoked with some ill conditioned people, who will never doe good, but corrupte and abuse others, &c. The rest of y e letter declared how they had subscribed those conditions according to his desire, and sente him y
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

once came the recollection of young

Then all at once came the recollection of young Mrs. Grewe downstairs.
— from His Second Wife by Ernest Poole

other commands the respect of your

Sportsmanship, sheer sportsmanship, the qualification that, more than any other, commands the respect of your great English landholder, surmounted every obstacle.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) by Various

of cases the regard of young

If we had the data before us we should be pained by the enlightenment that, in the vast majority of cases the regard of young people for each other is fixed in the first instance by motives that will bear quite as little scrutiny as Miss Rachel Bond's.
— from The Red Acorn by John McElroy

Oh child the rustling of your

" "Yes." "What do you hear?" "Oh, boy, the whispering of your shell!" "Oh, child, the rustling of your corn!"
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

of commanding the respect of your

‘When you tell me,’ resumed Tom, who was not the less indignant for keeping himself quiet, ‘that my sister has no innate power of commanding the respect of your children, I must tell you it is not so; and that she has.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

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